Heavy Weather is the eighth album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through
Columbia Records. The release originally sold about 500,000 copies; it would
prove to be the band's most commercially successful album. Heavy Weather
received a 5-star review from Down Beat magazine and went on to be voted jazz
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Nov 26, 2017 ... Nevertheless, the fact remains that Weather Report reached its critical and
commercial peak with Heavy Weather. No other Weather Report album received
as many awards as Heavy Weather. It was recognized as jazz “album of the year”
by virtually every publication that gave out such an award.

Mar 23, 2017 ... No matter what kind of day, week, month or year you've been having, it's
impossible to stay in a bad mood when you get an earful of the opening track
from Weather Report's 1977 album Heavy Weather, released 40 years ago this
month. The song's composer, the Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul had an ...